Don’t sit around and wait for change (2019)
explores the female anatomy - the clitoris, vagina/vulva, uterus and breasts - not as a depiction of sex objects to be used but of the body parts that give women sexual pleasure. Hand-sewn, stuffed and embroidered with feminist protest slogans these soft abstracted body parts pay homage to the recent worldwide #MeToo, Pussyhat and Nasty Woman movements. Craft materials and hand-stitching are employed as a form of resistance and power challenging their historical association with ‘women’s work’ and the stereotypical depiction of the housewife and homemaker. These subversive soft sculptures are neatly arranged as pink ‘throw-cushions’ on a kitsch floral couch symbolising the living space where these cushions (or housewives) should be. The cushions appear to fit in to the second-hand couch and the traditional notion of the domestic until their embroidered messages of dissent are revealed on the back for the viewer to read.